CVE-2026-40042

CRITICAL EPSS 29.2%
Published Apr 13, 20262mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
9.3 CVSS 4.0
Critical
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Published Apr 13, 2026 2mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

Pachno 1.0.6 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files by exploiting unsafe XML parsing in the TextParser helper. Attackers can inject malicious XML entities through wiki table syntax and inline tags in issue descriptions, comments, and wiki articles to trigger entity resolution via simplexml_load_string() without LIBXML_NONET restrictions.

CVSS Details

Base Score
9.3
Exploitability
Impact
Vector string
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope X

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
29.2% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-403

References 2

  • vulncheck.com https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/pachno-wiki-textparser-xml-external-entity-injection
  • zeroscience.mk https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2026-5984.php

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.